Economic Struggles in Entertainment
Most of the time, money doesn’t enter into popular entertainment very much. Characters can somehow afford beautiful clothes and big Manhattan apartments no matter what jobs they have. But every now and then even Hollywood admits a lot of people are struggling. Countdown looks at how the recession is making its way into entertainment lately:
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Working America’s own Naazima tells me about another moment of economic awareness on TV from a few weeks back, when the True Blood character Lafayette refused to go to a hospital to be treated for his injuries because even though he had three jobs, he didn’t have insurance.
Keep an eye out for more of those moments and let us know about them.
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